Children eat more food when they prepare it themselves.

ABSTRACT: Encouraging children to participate in food preparation is recommended by pediatric guidelines and has been included in public health interventions. However, little is known about whether the act of preparing a food specifically increases children's intake of that food, nor is it known whether this effect might differ for healthy and familiar unhealthy foods. The present study examines whether 5- to 7-year-old children eat more of a food they prepared themselves compared to the same food prepared by someone else. Children participated in a laboratory study in which they prepared either a salad or a dessert and then had the opportunity to eat the food they prepared and/or a nearly identical food prepared by someone else. We found that children ate more of a food they prepared themselves, bu

SUBMITTER: DeJesus JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6768385 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature